Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Last night, we had to go back to the gate due to FAR 117. We were going to go over 9 hours block for day if we took off. We laid over, then deadheaded back to base this morning on our off day. My time card is showing reroute pay, but it is still open. Will that reroute pay stick?
Did your dispatcher try to talk you into taking off anyway because "you could 'cut the corner' (on our out of the way westerly rather than southernly desired routing)" like ours did last month?